Antoine-Adrien Lamourette

Antoine-Adrien Lamourette (31 May 1742-11 January 1794) was a politician of the First French Republic during the French Revolution and a Vincentian priest.

Biography
Born to humble artisans in Frevent, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lamourette became a Vincentian Order priest in 1769. Lamourette initially was a Professor of Philosophy at the Vincentian seminary in Metz, but moved to Paris in 1783. He preached for the reduction of the privileges of the high priesthood, religious tolerance (although he fought against atheist philosophers), and that "religious vows should not lead to civil death". After the 1789 storming of the Bastille, he apologized for the taking of the prison and believed that Jews should be welcomed into society as equals with the French people. Lamourette was an ally of Honore Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau, a major French politician on the Legislative Assembly, but he did not share his royalist views; instead, he believed in a "Christian democracy". While serving as an assemblyman for Rhone-et-Loire, Lamourette introduced the "Lamourette kiss", in which he embraced other members of the assembly to take away the problems between the political factions.

However, Lamourette fell out of grace when he protested the September 1792 September Massacres and was implicated in the 1793 Girondist-federalist revolt in Lyon. On 29 September 1793 he was arrested near Lyon and was transferred to Paris, where the Revolutionary Court sentenced him to death. He was killed by guillotine on 11 January 1794.